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Author | : Uta Heil |
Publisher | : Augsburg Fortress Publishers |
Total Pages | : 547 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Apocryphal books |
ISBN | : 1506491073 |
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The overriding importance of Sunday as a Christian feast day is emphasized by many apocryphal and pseudepigraphic texts from Late Antiquity, above all the broadly received Letter from Heaven. This volume presents versions of this letter together with other texts, partly based on a new edition, including introduction, translation, and commentary.
Author | : Uta Heil |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2023-10-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1506491081 |
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A range of apocryphal and pseudepigraphic texts from Late Antiquity points to the importance of Sunday as a holiday for baptized Christians. First and foremost is the so-called Letter from Heaven, which has experienced a broad and long-lasting reception up to modern times, although it was also criticized as a forgery from its beginning. Unfortunately, these texts have not received sufficient attention so far. This volume presents various versions of the Letter from Heaven, as well as other texts (the pseudepigraphic Acts of the Synod of Caesarea; pseudepigraphic sermons of Eusebius of Alexandria, John Chrysostom, and Basil of Caesarea; passages from the Didascalia or Diataxis of Jesus Christ; the Second Apocryphal Apocalypse of John; the Visio Pauli; a sermon of Sophronius of Jerusalem; and the Apocalypse of Anastasia), together with a translation and commentary. An introduction tells the story of this letter and integrates it and the other texts into the cultural history of Sunday. It becomes clear that Sunday as a day of rest and a feast day was not in the foreground of the development of an ecclesiastical festival calendar for a long time, although Emperor Constantine enacted a law on holiday rest on Sunday in 321 CE. Sunday, rather, marks the end of the Christianization of time and the calendar, when Easter, Pentecost, Christmas, and martyrs' feasts were already taken for granted. The authors of these texts obviously wanted to accelerate this process, which is why an anonymous person even resorted to presenting Christ himself as the author of this letter. Here, severe punishments are threatened to all who do not observe Sunday, who work as if it were a weekday, and who skip worship. The broad tradition shows that the letter was read and distributed despite all the criticism, and was even turned into an early form of a chain letter.
Author | : William Henry Pinnock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : Church decoration and ornament |
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Author | : William Henry Pinnock |
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Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1860 |
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Author | : Jordan Zweck |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2018-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1487501005 |
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In Epistolary Acts, Jordan Zweck examines the presentation of letters in early medieval vernacular literature, including hagiography, prose romance, poetry, and sermons on letters from heaven, moving beyond traditional genre study to offer a radically new way of conceptualizing Anglo-Saxon epistolarity.
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Total Pages | : 828 |
Release | : 1829 |
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Download The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical, ecclesiastical & literary miscellany Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Enoch Mellor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1862 |
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Total Pages | : 844 |
Release | : 1842 |
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Total Pages | : 966 |
Release | : 1842 |
Genre | : Religion |
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Author | : Charles D. Wright |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 1993-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521419093 |
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Charles Wright identifies the characteristic features of Irish Christian literature which influenced Anglo-Saxon vernacular authors. As a full-length study of Irish influence on Old English religious literature, the book will appeal to scholars in Old English literature, Anglo-Saxon studies, and Old and Middle Irish literature.